From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jan 11 3:38:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1134714F19 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 03:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA19120; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:37:24 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.1.20000111121925.00c61b50@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:24:37 +0100 To: Borja Marcos From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <387A000A.486C6423@sarenet.es> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 16:51 10.01.00 +0100, you wrote: >Rick Hamell wrote: >> >> I've exerienced about an 8% loss on these motherboards due to >> minor power surges alone, not to mention a multitude of small problems. I >> highly suggest you go with Soltek or Asus, both work great under FreeBSD >> and Windows if now problems. > > Minor power surges? Loss? Do you mean *broken* boards? > > Here in Spain it can be quite difficult to buy an Athlon >Asus board... most dealers only carry the most frequently sold items. > Hi! Well, german mag c't just tested some cases /power supplies, also regarding the Athlon boards. Some power supplies were _very_ sensible to minor power surges, like they happen some times a day, because regulation circuits of the housing/power plant let some additional power spike through... And some boards happen to react more sensible than others. c't mentioned, that in testing the 5 actual mainboards in November (issue 24), the Gigabyte died all of a sudden. but the replacement, they got from Gigabyte, worked absolutely stable. Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- The power to serve ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message